"Sherlock
Holmes? The so-called 'consulting detective'? The man belongs
in a museum! Or an Opium House."

Greystone
Manor: a house of dark secrets where the halls echo with the whispers of
spectral manifestations. At a gathering of psychics, hypochondriacs,
Yorkshiremen and other oddballs, an insane killer is at work. As suspicion
falls on Dr Watson and his impressive moustache, the physician calls upon
the only man in England who can solve the case and clear his name: Mr
Sherlock Holmes. But Holmes is nowhere to be found...

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Major
References: “The
Final Problem”

Placement:
This
Misadventure takes place in May, 1895. In “the Canon”, this
places it between “Solitary Cyclist” and “Black Peter”.

Of
Singular Interest?

*Why
does Watson never see through Holmes’s disguises?

*Did
Watson sport a moustache, or was that a detail added by the illustrator
Sidney Paget?

*Who
was the editor of “Strand Magazine” when the Sherlock Holmes stories
first saw print?

*Spiritual
matters were of great interest to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a member
of The Psychical Society.
Doyle publicly converted to Spiritualism in 1916, and was soon writing
books, letters, articles and pamphlets on his new found belief in messages
from the Spirit World. He travelled extensively, making public
speeches on the subject, and in 1925 he opened a Psychic Bookshop, Library
and Museum in Victoria Street in London. Doyle struck up a friendship with
the American escapologist and stage illusionist Harry Houdini, who shared
Doyle's belief in a Spirit World.

*The
rarest books in the world include: A complete first edition of a Gutenberg
Bible; a first edition folio of the Complete Shakespeare; collected
Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts; the "Bostonian" version of Edgar
Alan Poe's "Tamerlane"; and The Book of Goth.